The Warriors and Lakers Have A Mutiny!

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[00:02:05] All right we have a really big show it is currently 438 Pacific Standard Time so the game to start it with a couple of my guys shout out to.

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[00:02:25] We had a conversation about the Lakers and they were like how dare you be upset about this team and you know he mad about where they are and you know they want to championship a couple you know like three you know in the bubble four years ago now.

[00:02:41] Why are you so upset?

[00:02:43] There's a ton to go with that but here's the main thing that is important.

[00:02:51] After tumultuous week for the Lakers that involved losing games the players look in both the logic and then the reports of six sources who were concerned about several different lineup changes and fluctuation and minutes.

[00:03:08] I'm going to assume those sources were players.

[00:03:11] Got it on pretty good account it was players we got agents calling into the front office to ask for some clarification on minutes and rotations.

[00:03:25] So there's a lot going on with the Lakers with the frustrating and embarrassing losses to the heat and grizzly is the Lakers went to a lineup with another playmaker along with LeBron James.

[00:03:37] In Austin Reeves the Lakers beat the impressive streaking clippers 106 to 103 last night.

[00:03:47] The one thing I do want to talk about before we get into everything about this game.

[00:03:52] Did you check out the LeBron duck?

[00:03:55] It's not the dunk that's impressive.

[00:03:57] It is the reaction of one James Harden as the dunk is happening.

[00:04:03] The analogy that I want to give on this is that James Harden looked like he came out the shower and his girlfriend had his phone.

[00:04:13] And maybe there were certain things of that phone he did not want her to see.

[00:04:17] That was a look that James Harden had on his face.

[00:04:21] Or when you were told by your mom to clean up and then you got lost in video games and then you heard the car pulling to the driveway.

[00:04:34] You know that looked you got that was James Harden look last night.

[00:04:38] Okay, if you haven't seen it it's all over social media go check it out it is hilarious.

[00:04:46] It's almost inconceivable after what we witnessed from the last two performance of performances from the Lakers that this would be what came out of it.

[00:04:58] Now, there's going to be theme to this podcast and it's not going to be the first time you hear sources and I say we're air quotes sources meaning players discussing minutes and rotations.

[00:05:16] But I find it very interesting that Darwin and him who has been under siege for literally the last week and a half about his rotations and it's been going on a lot longer than that.

[00:05:32] Here's the thing if it's coming out now that means that the players have been talking about this for several weeks.

[00:05:40] Okay, this is not something they just thought of hey man I'm in and out a line up the last couple times.

[00:05:47] I think I'm left set about that no.

[00:05:50] This is eight weeks ten weeks in the making.

[00:05:55] So what that being said for the Lakers to come out and beat a really good clip routine and mind you this is a clip routine with James Harden.

[00:06:05] Paul George.

[00:06:07] Collider in it all playing.

[00:06:09] No repel providing you know a spark off the bench.

[00:06:14] This is a loaded clip routine this is a clip routine that in the last pot.

[00:06:19] We talked about how impressive they've been and how they look like a legitimate contender now.

[00:06:26] But with that being said the Lakers come out they win the game and here's the best part Christian would found himself in the Lakers new rotation.

[00:06:35] It's a nine man rotation and he accredited himself very well last night.

[00:06:41] Chicken in nine points ten rebounds and two blocks over 16 minutes.

[00:06:47] In our last podcast and also in the YouTube clip so again I tell you to go to the YouTube channel for runner podcast collective and check it out.

[00:07:00] But we we hinted at the handle Russell being a six man at that point and their deal was first man off the bench last night he played let's see first and foremost what I'm going to say about this is that there was a there was an energy level.

[00:07:19] He also played 31 minutes.

[00:07:21] He got to a really slow shooting start.

[00:07:25] But then he hit three critical three point shots late to stay off the clippers.

[00:07:34] Dabren Ham talks about facts over feelings that was his like little motto when he got to job if you remember the press conference he says facts over feelings right.

[00:07:45] I'm going to say this as cleanly as I possibly can and this was my concern.

[00:07:50] And this is what I was talking about in some of my frustration that was talking with my guys last night about it.

[00:07:56] At the bronze advanced age it is in my opinion that having other creators often so creators on the floor to buffer with Ron and provide a respite.

[00:08:07] For him at 39 years of age where he's played 33 other 37 games and he's averaging 34.5 minutes whatever you think of Austin Reeves.

[00:08:20] He's the Lakers third best player and he's also a really good offense to initiator for himself and for others.

[00:08:29] You need to get as many guys like that as possible around your aging superstar.

[00:08:35] This was a crowd-known building the team around LeBron James in the first place.

[00:08:41] LeBron is great. LeBron will always be great.

[00:08:46] The problem is that LeBron at 39 he can't give it to you every single night on the defensive end.

[00:08:52] He has to pick a spot.

[00:08:54] He has to conserve the energy. LeBron is looking at one thing and one thing only.

[00:09:01] He's looking at the postseason. He's looking at how can I get my team in myself to win 16 games so I can get my championship.

[00:09:12] That is what he's looking at. I'm not saying he does not care about the regular season whatsoever.

[00:09:18] That is not what I'm trying to say. But you have to be a little flexible with him because of the fact of his advanced age.

[00:09:30] Oh, this is the other thing that I want to talk about with Reeves.

[00:09:34] When this whole thing started with the minutes and the rotations now, my junior there's going to ton of injuries.

[00:09:40] He's been in an out of line up. He's been mostly out of line up because of injury.

[00:09:47] You know, we had really missed games. He's still missing games right now.

[00:09:54] Vanderbilt missed a ton of games and then he came back.

[00:09:58] So the Lakers haven't had the full rotation. I thought it was interesting when Ham said this.

[00:10:04] He wanted to go ahead and limit Austin Reeves minutes to 28 minutes of game to keep him fresh.

[00:10:11] You're trying to keep a 25 year old man fresh and you got a 39 year old man playing a 34.5 minutes again.

[00:10:20] Explain yourself. That doesn't make sense to me.

[00:10:26] I am going to keep fresh my 25 year old guard.

[00:10:32] And I am going to hook 34 36 minutes at 39 year old LeBron James.

[00:10:41] You see some of the inconsistencies we have here. Now, Ham, to his credit he led the Lakers to a Western Conference final in his first year, mind you.

[00:10:50] And also, keep in mind, in that year we had a ton of roster overhaul.

[00:10:58] Russ was out. Dilo was in. Vanderbilt was in.

[00:11:04] Rory was in. So they had a whole real like a half the group.

[00:11:09] The regular rotation was new.

[00:11:11] So credit to Ham to get them to the Western Conference finals.

[00:11:15] But that does not excuse you from this type of behavior.

[00:11:21] Not at all. Okay?

[00:11:25] You're 18 and 19. You are 10th in the West at this point in time.

[00:11:31] So literally you are almost out of the playoffs.

[00:11:35] This time for the Lakers to start stringing together victories.

[00:11:41] Consistently, or they will stay in the planned tournament.

[00:11:46] And this will be another hard playoff run for the Lakers.

[00:11:51] The Lakers need to have some sort of real floating in the playoffs.

[00:11:58] So then at some point, hopefully, at the end of the year, maybe you can rest the run.

[00:12:05] Maybe we can cut down some of his minutes as we get closer to the end of the year.

[00:12:11] So then we can have him fresh for the playoffs.

[00:12:14] God, oh, you'll join interesting data about the Clipper game.

[00:12:18] And I want to get credit.

[00:12:19] Clutch points.

[00:12:21] It's a Tomar Azalee.

[00:12:23] The Clippers last night.

[00:12:25] They finished a, they finished the game with a quantified shot quality of 54.8%.

[00:12:34] Their effective field goal per centage in that game was 46.8,

[00:12:41] meaning that they shot 8% below what they were expected to shoot last night.

[00:12:48] So they had a lot of open shots that they missed.

[00:12:52] And that game was a three point game.

[00:12:55] So the Lakers can sit here and talk well.

[00:12:57] They got a victory.

[00:12:58] They can exhale.

[00:13:00] But it wasn't like they dominated that game.

[00:13:05] That game was nipping tough, the whole way.

[00:13:07] Lakers Clippers got out to lead.

[00:13:10] Lakers got back in it.

[00:13:12] Another slow start by the Lakers right.

[00:13:15] 10 turnovers again.

[00:13:18] It seems like an epidemic personally.

[00:13:21] I don't know what they can do to fix these issues internally.

[00:13:28] But the other report is that they signed Dylan Winler to a contract.

[00:13:38] The other day he's a six seven wing.

[00:13:41] He also just had an incredible G. Lee game where he had like 33 points, like 22 rebounds.

[00:13:47] Now I don't expect him to do that with the Lakers, but he is an outside shooter.

[00:13:52] And just before we turned on the mics here,

[00:13:57] the Lakers also signed Skyler Maze at an LSU who is a point guard,

[00:14:04] a German point guard.

[00:14:05] I think he's been in league while four years now.

[00:14:08] And they just signed him to a two way contract as well.

[00:14:12] So Lakers have looking for shooting.

[00:14:15] They might be looking for somebody who can handle the ball.

[00:14:19] Oh, the things that we just talked about for LeBron.

[00:14:23] All right, there it is with that.

[00:14:26] Do we have anything else on Darwin and wherever?

[00:14:30] I don't think so.

[00:14:31] I think we might be done with the Lakers.

[00:14:33] I want to leave you with this with the Lakers.

[00:14:37] I said it to my friends last night and I'll say it here.

[00:14:45] When you get into the LeBron James business,

[00:14:49] you are going to expect a lot of roster overhaul.

[00:14:53] Now in his previous stops that all worked out,

[00:14:58] but to turn your roster over to LeBron and clutch sports

[00:15:07] with LeBron being 35 years of age.

[00:15:12] I don't think that is a recipe for success.

[00:15:19] I do not disrespect that man's achievements.

[00:15:22] I do not disrespect that man's legacy on this court.

[00:15:27] I do believe that what he did for the in-season tournament,

[00:15:31] as far as Adam Silver is concerned in the NBA owners are concerned.

[00:15:37] And turning that into a property that can be profitable for them.

[00:15:43] I don't think you can put a monetary value on what LeBron has meant to this league.

[00:15:51] Because everywhere he's went, he is boosted the economy.

[00:15:59] But that being said at 35, I'm sorry,

[00:16:02] I don't want to turn my franchise over to him.

[00:16:07] This was my point last night, this was my point five years ago,

[00:16:11] and this is going to be my point the whole time.

[00:16:14] Now, you're telling me that AD is going to be the number one option,

[00:16:18] and then he's going to start having a lot of say and what goes on with the LeBron.

[00:16:22] Then I'll cool with that.

[00:16:24] What is log is LeBron is stirring the drink.

[00:16:30] This situation right here, we need to put around him the proper players

[00:16:35] to make all this work.

[00:16:37] So I'm hoping that the LeBron will go out and get some offensive initiators

[00:16:41] to help LeBron out, and they do need one more guy who can put the ball in the basket at a high level.

[00:16:50] Now, we'll get to rumors and what have you a little bit later,

[00:16:56] but we need to get to a big big story.

[00:17:00] Drain my greenness back, baby.

[00:17:03] Devonation.

[00:17:05] What are your fans? Are you happy?

[00:17:08] Your man is back.

[00:17:10] Well, kind of.

[00:17:12] The NBA reinstated green. He's back in the facility.

[00:17:16] He's ramping up to play.

[00:17:18] I don't know if he's going to be the next game or the game after that,

[00:17:21] but I would think before the week is out

[00:17:24] or by the end of the week, Drain my green will dawn a war use uniform.

[00:17:30] Since green suspension, the Warriors have went seven and six,

[00:17:34] that's updated from last night's loss.

[00:17:38] The young guys have stepped up in Drain Monts,

[00:17:41] absence branded Prasinsky has provided playmaking and rebounding

[00:17:46] at six foot four, six foot five mind-drew.

[00:17:49] I will tell you that with his minutes being increased and will have you.

[00:17:57] And until Jonathan Camingo's controversial benching the other night,

[00:18:03] he showed some flashes that the draft pundits were excited about

[00:18:08] at the beginning of the process when we first saw Jonathan Camingo hit the scene.

[00:18:13] He's actually played way better than Andrew Wiggins, too.

[00:18:20] Andrew Wiggins, I don't know what happened.

[00:18:23] Now, I'm not going to speculate on that man's personal life.

[00:18:27] We know he took off for personal reasons in the middle of the year

[00:18:32] and it took him some time to come back, but I will tell you that the Andrew Wiggins

[00:18:39] had left and then this one who came back.

[00:18:44] So they ended up in the last year and into this season.

[00:18:50] He's been awful.

[00:18:54] I mean, I don't know if I could put into words how that he's been,

[00:18:58] but he's not rebounding at the level that he was when they were going after the championship

[00:19:03] a couple years ago.

[00:19:05] He's not shooting them all very well.

[00:19:07] He's not attacking the rim and his defenses become non-existent.

[00:19:11] So I don't know what is actually going on with Andrew Wiggins,

[00:19:15] but Jonathan Camingo who is still very, very raw is out playing you.

[00:19:21] And that's a problem.

[00:19:25] Trace Jackson Davis has assumed the Kevin Loonie role,

[00:19:30] which he's playing the center role at this point.

[00:19:34] Loonie so far this year has looked like a step slower.

[00:19:39] He doesn't seem to move as well and I wonder if the two hip surgeries

[00:19:45] and knee injuries and what have you has stopped him of his exclusiveness.

[00:19:53] And when I say that, I know he wasn't like a high-flyer and, you know,

[00:19:58] super duper ramp protector but that boy can pour.

[00:20:03] Okay, Kevin Loonie can pour.

[00:20:05] That dude was getting like 14 plus rebounds of game in the playoffs

[00:20:11] when they were going for the championship.

[00:20:16] But Trace Jackson Davis has come in and provided injected some energy.

[00:20:21] He's actually become a lot threat, which that's something that Kevin Loonie wasn't.

[00:20:27] He also has provided a little room protection at 6 foot 9 and 240 pounds.

[00:20:35] And he gives them just another guy that you feel when you go into the lane.

[00:20:42] And the Go and State Warriors don't have a lot of guys like that.

[00:20:46] They're constantly getting out rebounded because they're constantly smaller than everybody else.

[00:20:57] Steve Kerr has also come under fire and he is also been called out by Jonathan Kominga

[00:21:07] and Moses Moody for lack of playing time in inconsistent rotations.

[00:21:14] Jonathan Kominga and Moses Moody feel involved in enough to talk about their playing time to reporters.

[00:21:26] That's stuff a couple years ago, what a state in house.

[00:21:32] Now we have a new era, I guess, in San Francisco.

[00:21:37] Okay, last year we had the Jordan pool, Drainman Green incident.

[00:21:43] That video got leaked, right?

[00:21:46] We got sources coming out talking about, oh, I'm upset about my playing time.

[00:21:52] Right?

[00:21:53] Now here's the thing, Kerr and Kominga had a sit down and supposedly everything is cool.

[00:22:00] Up until last night.

[00:22:03] What he got pulled again.

[00:22:05] So I'm going to tell you right now, this is something to monitor.

[00:22:10] I think the Go and State Warriors are in flux right now and it is even though the record has gotten better.

[00:22:18] I still think they're spiraling.

[00:22:22] I don't think it's a lost cause at all.

[00:22:25] So, you know, listen, I'm a Laker fan, I don't hide it, but I do respect the Warriors.

[00:22:32] I respect what they put together.

[00:22:34] I respect how they got about their business in a lot of ways.

[00:22:39] Some things I don't agree with.

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[00:23:08] All right.

[00:23:11] We got more on our on-car and his situation.

[00:23:16] It'll be interesting to me what Kerr decides once stray Mon is back.

[00:23:23] Does Kerr lean on experience?

[00:23:26] A championship category, or will he allow the young players to continue to provide the spark

[00:23:33] and the offensive firepower that they have displayed since stray Mon's suspension?

[00:23:42] Another facts over feelings, right?

[00:23:49] Something has to do in the bay and I'm going to tell you this right now.

[00:23:53] There's something to be said for keeping the young guys in the roles they are currently in

[00:24:00] until proven otherwise.

[00:24:04] The team plays with a speed, it plays with a purpose, it plays with a want to,

[00:24:10] a mingle wants to minutes, Moses moody wants minutes.

[00:24:15] Andrew Wiggins looks disinterested.

[00:24:19] Drey Mon Green seems like he's going through some sort of early mid-life crisis.

[00:24:27] And Clay, yes, he has some good games.

[00:24:30] Here's the thing, Clay is older.

[00:24:33] He was just basically a jump shooter that also had length and he played very good defense.

[00:24:42] The problem is now, is that he's been set of his lateral quickness by having a kille's tear

[00:24:52] and then a ACL.

[00:24:56] So we are never going to get the clay that we had four years ago.

[00:25:02] We're never getting that guy back.

[00:25:05] But if you click pieces around this team, Curry's still great.

[00:25:10] I understand he had a bad game last night.

[00:25:12] Curry's still great.

[00:25:15] Put some stuff around them to go ahead and either continue this run or start making

[00:25:21] some hard choices, and maybe start to dismantle the light years ahead team.

[00:25:29] Yes, I did it quote Joe Lake with that silly comment when he said he was his franchise

[00:25:39] was light years ahead of everyone else.

[00:25:43] When you have Steph Curry in the crime, Clay Thompson in the prime, previous to injury,

[00:25:50] Kevin Durant, who's one of the greatest scorers of all time and Dray Mon Green,

[00:25:56] who's arguably one of the best defenders of all time and also a hell of an offensive creator and

[00:25:59] hug.

[00:26:02] A little bit more from Ghost State, Adrian Warrant, who's been a great player in the game.

[00:26:07] He's probably the best player in the game.

[00:26:15] He's a little bit more from Ghost State, Adrian Warrant asked you of ESPN reports that

[00:26:21] Dray Mon Green had a meeting, a face-to-face meeting with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver

[00:26:27] and in that discussion, Dray Mon told Adam Silver that he wanted to retire.

[00:26:37] Now, I would believe Dray Mon Green, but I don't think it'd be hard to walk away from

[00:26:45] 25 million every year for four years.

[00:26:52] Now, I'm not saying he wasn't frustrated.

[00:26:54] I understand that Dray Mon wears his emotions on his sleeves and he probably did say that.

[00:27:01] I don't think he believed it, but I think he said it because when he first straighted, he says stuff.

[00:27:09] So, obviously the man was frustrated when he went to Dr. Silver.

[00:27:13] Silver thought that was a last decision he talked to him and then Dray Mon even complimented

[00:27:19] Adam Silver on his podcast earlier where he said that it's nice to know that we have a commissioner who cares about

[00:27:26] the players and not just about the bottom line.

[00:27:30] So, Kudos to Adam Silver, I guess he kept Dray Mon in the league.

[00:27:36] Literally twice, right?

[00:27:38] With the suspension, got him back in and then he wanted to retire and said, no, Dray Mon don't retire.

[00:27:43] No, no, no.

[00:27:45] Anyway, with that being said, it's just some insight into what's going on with Dray Mon, the erratic behavior.

[00:27:53] Okay?

[00:27:55] I hope that in this time that he took away, he was able to get to help that he needed.

[00:28:03] I hope that he got some tools that will help him as he goes forward this year and also to finish out this Hall of Fame career that he is put together.

[00:28:15] What's the next course of action for the Golden State Warriors?

[00:28:22] Our lake up in my done leave it Junior and that's Kurt Lake of not Joe, Kurt Lake of,

[00:28:30] Mike, Mike done leave it Junior.

[00:28:34] Are they up to the task to solving the tensions of Moses, Moody and Jonathan Kaminga?

[00:28:45] It's a question because here's the thing.

[00:28:49] I understand that Kurt Lake of work is way up.

[00:28:52] I understand that he did, he did the footwork, he did the groundwork.

[00:28:57] I understand that this is a position that he feels that he's aren't kind of hard to say you completely earned it when your last name is Lake of but I digress.

[00:29:12] But this is a is a tall ask for a first time and first year front office executive and I'll be very interested to see how it all plays out.

[00:29:29] Now, also I want to give a shout out to a Montaipool of NBC Sports Bay area.

[00:29:39] He says he has sources as they, the Warriors front office stays committed to dream on along with Steph and Clay.

[00:29:49] So if the line in the sand was drawn by the young players in Moses, Moody and Jonathan Kaminga,

[00:29:58] talking on Plain time and then this requires to come out about that the front office is still loyal to the core.

[00:30:10] Tracy's in is about to get real, real interesting and spicy in San Francisco and I can't wait for it.

[00:30:19] Remember, trade deadline is literally now a Montaipool.

[00:30:24] We are there. So keep it locked here at front runner podcast collective all the latest news and we will get it to you properly in a timely fashion.

[00:30:40] Here's my thing right here, okay.

[00:30:42] So with all that being said, we talked about Steph, we talked about Clay, we talked about what they're going to do or what we think they're going to do.

[00:30:50] I would like to quote one of my favorite early odds philosophers.

[00:30:58] You know that great, those great great philosophers in sync right Justin Timberlake and the guys.

[00:31:06] Data song called Bye Bye Bye.

[00:31:10] And I'm saying bye bye bye to one Chris Paul in his 30 million dollar contract plus Kaminga to get a player that will help carry and drain mine and clay.

[00:31:25] That's that's what my thought on that.

[00:31:28] I hope that I hope they keep I think they're going to keep put Zimski. He's he's a car guy throwing through.

[00:31:33] I think they're definitely going to keep trace Jackson Davis because he's cheap and young in his accent plan well, but Kaminga moody and Chris Paul salary.

[00:31:47] That gets you a 44, 46 million dollar player or two players at 23.

[00:32:00] Just saying, we'll get to the rumors and we'll have you in a second.

[00:32:10] Okay, so let's get to it. This is a hard one for me.

[00:32:17] It's over in Chicago for Zach Alvin and I'll much tell you why. First of all, my man has come back. He is playing.

[00:32:24] He's actually going to play tonight actually he's part of playing right now.

[00:32:28] But you know what he's not doing? He's not starting.

[00:32:35] Per source.

[00:32:37] It's not just Billy Donovan the head coach of the Chicago goals.

[00:32:41] It is not just a foreign office. It's the players itself who have grown weary of Zach Alvin's act.

[00:32:54] And I think the message is going to be sent because guess what?

[00:32:59] My man is coming off the bench.

[00:33:02] So a multi time all start a guy who's ever like 26, 27 points again and this late is coming off the bench.

[00:33:12] So Chicago.

[00:33:15] What do you want for Zach Alvin? What are you trying to get?

[00:33:19] Because that's going to be a, your guy is also under my great philosophers in sync.

[00:33:28] He's also by by by. Oh, the other thing. I need all my Chicago fans out there.

[00:33:40] All my people in the Wendy city.

[00:33:43] I need y'all to hit me up on Twitter or X, whatever you want to call it.

[00:33:48] At front runner PC, I have a real interesting social experiment.

[00:33:58] Somebody needs to find Zach Alvin's real estate agent.

[00:34:04] See what the house, see if the house is on the market.

[00:34:08] Okay. So for all my Chicago fans out there, I'm going to need you guys to zillow it up.

[00:34:14] Get us some information. Let us know when our guy is getting traded.

[00:34:21] All right, we have now let's get to the trades. Let's get into the rumors. Okay. A wing stop or wing go.

[00:34:28] This is a question for the Brooklyn nets.

[00:34:32] During your finish Smith voice on Neil Spencer, Dan Wittie and former Laker, Lonnie Walker to fourth are all available at this present time.

[00:34:46] So if you're trying to get early trade deadline shopping in to my franchises that are trying to win,

[00:34:56] look no further than the boutique salon of the Brooklyn nets where you can get all the wings you want.

[00:35:04] They got four of them available and the list for these, for these, uh,

[00:35:12] the electrical wings are, of course, the Lakers Golden State.

[00:35:19] The maps have been linked to these guys. The Milwaukee bucks have been linked to these guys.

[00:35:26] The okay seat Thunder have been linked and as well as the pelicans.

[00:35:32] So here's the thing, here's some wings that are available. They're not on the high end as far as the price tag is concerned.

[00:35:41] And they would provide some stability to teams looking for it. So if you're looking for wings, just go to Brooklyn.

[00:35:50] They got a ton of them.

[00:35:52] All right. How can I put this? All right. We're going to talk about this real quick.

[00:36:05] Pascal Siocca mode, the Toronto Raptors is going to be on the move.

[00:36:10] And we stated on the previous podcast, my belief is that Siocca will be moved by the trade deadline. Now, my guy, Nico,

[00:36:18] Miyatello, he believes that he will not be traded.

[00:36:23] Here's his proof. Here is Nico's proof that Pascal Siocca will not get traded.

[00:36:31] Canadian's McDonald's have a can't hand with one Pascal Siocca.

[00:36:38] Pascal has a signature McFlurry.

[00:36:43] And Nico holds that as proof that Pascal Siocca will be staying in Toronto.

[00:36:51] So that's the hard hitting journalism that you get here at Frontrunner podcast collective.

[00:36:59] So, we're going to talk about the real quick.

[00:37:04] We don't just say, oh, this, oh, the world did not ask you said this. Nico went on his grind and said,

[00:37:10] listen, this is our no campaign around Pascal Siocca. How dare they try to trade him?

[00:37:17] No, he's not getting traded. That'll mess up the whole campaign.

[00:37:24] Unfortunately, I disagree with Nico. Pascal Siocca is on the move and there are a lot of teams that are looking at that guy.

[00:37:33] I still believe that even though Sacramento pulled out of the trade a couple weeks ago,

[00:37:42] I still think they have their eye on one Pascal Siocca.

[00:37:47] As well as there are probably about six to eight other teams. So good luck to my guys in Sacramento and good luck to the rest of league.

[00:37:56] I would love to see what this bidding war is going to create.

[00:38:00] Per Mark Stein, and by the way, Mark Stein is an incredible reporter. He's been around forever.

[00:38:12] He was on ESPN forever. He's been a week. Yahoo, he's been everywhere.

[00:38:18] But check out his sub stack online. It has a lot of good nuggets in it. I think I don't think they, the paywalls too much as far as I'm concerned.

[00:38:29] But go ahead and lock yourself into his sub stack because he has some interesting nuggets in there.

[00:38:36] But he's reporting that the Atlanta front office and the Atlanta franchise has determined to build the team around trade young.

[00:38:46] They're their superstar, they're all star and also the young Wayne Jalen Johnson.

[00:38:55] That means that Dejante Murray, DeAndre Hunter, Bob Donbottdoin of it and Clint Capella are all available.

[00:39:09] Okay, so remember a couple weeks ago we didn't have, we didn't have like the notebooks opened up and we didn't have a lot of stuff out there floating around.

[00:39:22] Guess what? We are now 30 days away and the notebooks are opening up and we're starting to figure out what franchises are doing.

[00:39:31] Now I will tell you the reason why they're doing this is because I'm hearing that they're not, they're not opposed to kind of taking this year as a step back year.

[00:39:47] I'm not going to say the word, I'm not going to say the T-word. I'll just say it's a step back year.

[00:39:54] So then they can go ahead and build the team around those two guys and construct a team around Jalen Johnson and one trade young.

[00:40:07] Now I am go ahead and say it now.

[00:40:11] We've done a lot of later stuff in the last couple of podcasts. So for my friends out there who are exhausted of the Laker coverage, I do understand but I will say this.

[00:40:25] And this is the only kind of self-esteem I'll say in the podcast.

[00:40:29] I have been a fan of Bogdong, Bogdong of it for a long period of time. Actually he was somebody I thought of when he was with Sacramento.

[00:40:40] And I would love to have that guy on the Lakers. I think he is incredibly, he's incredible glue guy and he's just has a good feel for the game.

[00:40:55] But I think if you put him around really great players, I think you get the best of Bogdong by Donovitch.

[00:41:02] I don't think he's a super star. I don't think he can go out there and get your 30 leg on a consistent basis.

[00:41:08] What that dude can hit a shot and he does play some defense.

[00:41:13] So I will be interested to see what the market is for Bogdong by Donovitch when we get probably within the next week.

[00:41:22] So I will be here more and more rumors.

[00:41:32] Okay, that's that.

[00:41:36] We got, I know that's a lot of stuff that I need to get to.

[00:41:43] All right.

[00:41:45] We've got a couple more things to get to.

[00:41:48] And I'm going to call these Weekend Observations.

[00:41:55] I don't know if you guys checked out the game against the Nuggets played the other night.

[00:42:03] Now listen, I don't know what's going on but I think my man Yokech is bored like out of his mind.

[00:42:18] They won a game by like 17 points with Yokech taking three shots.

[00:42:28] They won by 17, but Nuggets a two time MVP.

[00:42:35] A finals MVP took three shots in a game where he played.

[00:42:43] He played the whole game, not the whole game but you know he played his record a lot in a minute.

[00:42:50] Three points or three shots.

[00:42:54] But he also has 16 times.

[00:42:58] So he did contribute obviously.

[00:43:00] I just thought it was, I thought it was funny.

[00:43:03] You can just see him just toying with the opposition now.

[00:43:06] It's like what?

[00:43:08] What possibly cannot do to embarrass somebody with the least amount of effort?

[00:43:17] I think this is what Yokech is trying to do now.

[00:43:20] I think he's just trying to find little things to keep him occupied until we get to the playoffs.

[00:43:25] So good luck in your pursuit of finding things to interest you, Nuggets.

[00:43:33] I look forward to your next feet.

[00:43:37] I don't know what it's going to be but I look forward to it.

[00:43:41] And also since we last potted that shot that he hit against Golden State,

[00:43:48] the high court logo shot to win the game at the buzzer was so ridiculous.

[00:43:56] So ridiculous.

[00:43:59] That guy's incredible.

[00:44:04] Oh, here we go.

[00:44:06] The Grizzlies win in Phoenix without John Marant, scheduled rest day by the way for John.

[00:44:16] There were no gun incidents.

[00:44:18] There were no IG posts.

[00:44:20] It was just rest.

[00:44:22] My guy's on his best behavior right now.

[00:44:24] So Phoenix, which your level of concern with your big three all together by the way,

[00:44:35] Bill played in that game.

[00:44:37] So Bradley Bill played KD played in Devin Booker play and still you got a house by the Memphis Grizzlies.

[00:44:50] Horst still I think 10 games under 500 by the way.

[00:44:54] Any cost for a concern in the Valley of the Sun.

[00:45:01] I'm just asking because it's not looking great and it looks like you don't have enough dudes.

[00:45:09] It's great that you had the three.

[00:45:12] It's we all loved it.

[00:45:14] Oh my God, this is going to be great.

[00:45:16] So Booker KD was not to like.

[00:45:21] Well, what's not to like is that the lack of bench, the lack of size, the lack of rebounds,

[00:45:33] the lack of room protection.

[00:45:37] There's a lot of stuff not to like in Phoenix right now.

[00:45:41] So I got my eyes on Phoenix.

[00:45:50] We already talked about what Atlanta is doing, but I do want to give credit to Jake Fisher and Dan Devin on getting landry fill spots on how they think they want to construct a team and Atlanta.

[00:46:04] So I want to give those guys a tip of the count for the good work that they've done.

[00:46:09] And let's see we got one couple other things to get to and then we're going to be out.

[00:46:15] And we still got some what's up.

[00:46:16] Oh, I have a question from my Canadian people.

[00:46:21] What commercial do you want to see?

[00:46:23] NATO Sun, RJ Barrett in first.

[00:46:27] Sources are saying that the major brands in the Canada are calling the Raptors organization like it is the trade deadline.

[00:46:37] Can we get RJ Barrett?

[00:46:39] Remember, RJ Barrett is from Toronto.

[00:46:42] He is Canadian throwing through.

[00:46:46] So having RJ Barrett, Donny, Toronto's Raptors uniform, the big major brands in Canada are having a frenzy on trying to get RJ Barrett to push their products.

[00:47:05] Like I said, we go deep on this podcast so this is your first time.

[00:47:09] I hope you enjoyed it.

[00:47:12] Oh, I want to give out a shout out to my guy who has the best throw in the league.

[00:47:19] Jerry Allen, Jerry Allen had himself a game over the weekend.

[00:47:23] 29.16 rebounds.

[00:47:26] My man is a walking double double and I wanted to show him love and I wanted to show the city a Cleveland love.

[00:47:36] And then here's the thing, it's about to start actually it's probably starting right now.

[00:47:40] Who you got in the National Championship game?

[00:47:43] We got Michigan University of Michigan and we got the University of Washington.

[00:47:49] Two teams that we didn't expect to be here but Ding Dong, the SEC is at least dead this year.

[00:47:58] I just want to say a big story.

[00:48:01] I wanted to throw it out there as far as that's concerned.

[00:48:04] Hit me up in the comments also.

[00:48:09] You can also comment or leave me like a suggestion on Spotify or Apple and leave us a five star rating, you know, that goes along with it.

[00:48:20] But yeah, I'm interested.

[00:48:22] Let's talk about these things that's going on.

[00:48:25] I think is there any other things that we need to get to listen and just want them to ensure that we got all the notes taken care of, well, well, well, well,

[00:48:34] That's what I like.

[00:48:37] Okay, I want to leave you with this.

[00:48:41] We have we'll talk about what the pos situation is going to look like for the next month.

[00:48:52] Okay.

[00:48:54] Now, I'm going to tell you right now, no disrespect to the John Tay Marine and no disrespect to Pascal Siocca.

[00:49:03] If they get traded, I don't know if we're going to break in and do a emergency pod.

[00:49:10] I think we're going to need something a little more loftier than that.

[00:49:14] It all depends on what it is.

[00:49:15] We'll see.

[00:49:17] It might be a real big trade, but we will have emergency pods as we start inching closer and closer to the NBA trade deadline.

[00:49:30] Okay, so keep it locked here with front runner podcast collective or as I like to call it FRPC.

[00:49:39] And enjoy the hoops and we will be back later on this week.

[00:49:44] And then thank you guys so much.

[00:49:48] I've been looking over like the analytics and everything like that.

[00:49:52] I'm blown away by you guys consuming the product.

[00:49:58] So I want to thank you guys for the bottom of my heart.

[00:50:01] I saw Turkey, I saw Scotland, I saw the world.

[00:50:08] I saw Ireland, really the UK in general.

[00:50:14] France is in Esquania is in.

[00:50:21] By the way, shout out to Greece.

[00:50:25] I'm sure that has a lot to do with Janice and to the coup.

[00:50:29] So thank you, Janice for being awesome.

[00:50:33] We just want to shout out everybody, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, you name it.

[00:50:41] Man, we've hit all five continents and I can't tell you how blessed I feel about that and obviously, you know,

[00:50:52] you know how we do it in North America, you know how y'all get down.

[00:50:56] Y'all just bring nothing but heat.

[00:50:59] Now the call of action is this, is that we want to continue to grow the pot but we also want to continue to grow the conversation.

[00:51:07] So again, on X or formerly known as Twitter, front runner, PC,

[00:51:16] or you can hit my guy up, Nico at Nico, F-R, PC.

[00:51:24] That's going to do it for the show today.

[00:51:27] Again, I can't thank you guys enough and we will see you down the road.

[00:51:34] Be easy.